URL: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/Brand-communications-in-time-of-crisis.html
Updated April 2, 2020
Authors:  Alex Josephson, Eimear Lambe

Brand communications in time of crisis

URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter-data/twitter-opens-up-data-for-researchers-to-study-covid-19-tweets-idUSKBN22B2Q1
Published: 4/29/2020
Author: Elizabeth Culliford

Twitter opens up data for researchers to study COVID-19 tweets

According to Twitter, as of April 2, 2020, a COVID-19 related tweet was posted every 45 milliseconds, and coronavirus was the second most used hashtag of 2020. Additionally, on April 29, 2020, Twitter announced that it would make its real-time data accessible to researchers and developers to study COVID-19-related tweets.

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Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, preprint servers have played a significantly larger role due to the urgent need for researchers to share their findings. Because traditional publication takes time, more researchers are utilizing preprint servers to achieve critical fast dissemination, often advertising their non-peer-reviewed papers on social media platforms like Twitter. However, this highlights pre-existing concerns regarding the lack of a formal peer-review process prior to publication. There is an inevitable risk that non-peer-reviewed papers may disseminate unsound science, which is exceptionally consequential in COVID-19 research because it directly affects life-and-death public health outcomes.

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